On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:11:57 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> I know my laptop has S-Video out on it. (While not really knowing what
> S-Video is.) I was really astonished when I hooked my laptop up to the
> TV; all the text was unreadably blurry. But then, I guess you normally
> view a TV from the other side of the room, so why bother making it
> produce a crisp image of something you can only see from a few feet
> away?

I have to disagree with Warp - I don't believe this is not an NTSC vs. 
PAL issue; NTSC and PAL signaling are different enough that the image 
would appear corrupted (different number of lines, different scanrate, 
etc) and would flicker a lot (PAL is 25 fps, NTSC is 29.97 fps).

That said, you should have settings in the video drivers to select the 
output format, or there should be a utility to switch it.

Jim

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